On Sun, 6 May 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:15:45 +1000
>From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
>To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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>Subject: [patch] 2.4 add suffix for uname -r
>
>A frequent requirement is to rename vmlinuz-2.x.y to 2.x.y-old or
>2.x.y.save to preserve a working kernel. But renaming the image does
>not change the value of uname -r so it still tries to use modules
>2.x.y, which defeats the purpose of saving an working kernel.
>
>Normally I would say that this is a user space problem but it requires
>finding every program that uses uname(2) and every script that uses
>uname -r and changing them, not practical (modutils, alsa, pciutils,
>/etc/rc.d, mkinitrd etc.). Instead this small patch to the kernel adds
>the boot time option unamersfx (uname -r suffix). Rename a kernel
>image from 2.x.y to 2.x.y.foo, rename /lib/modules/2.x.y to 2.x.y.foo
>and boot with unamersfx=.foo to safely pick up the old kernel.
>
>Objects that "know" the value of uname -r that they were compiled with
>will not work with unamersfx. Are there any?
I don't see how this patch is necessary when we have
"EXTRAVERSION" available. Change EXTRAVERSION in your kernel
builds and it is totally a non issue. No renaming of anything is
necessary.
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